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Dates: during 1940-1949
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New York's Governor Tom Dewey paid a neighborly call on Massachusetts last week-his first since the 1944 presidential campaign. The occasion was Springfield's Eastern States Exposition, New England's biggest agricultural fair.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Back of the Barn | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

During the scrimmage, the Freshmen remained constantly on the defensive, and for the second straight day provided a target for the offensive plays of their seniors. While the Varsity made notable gains with abandon, the Yardlings rallied on more than one occasion to stop them cold and attracted favorable attention...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Varsity Drills On Punts and Pass Defense | 9/25/1947 | See Source »

The occasion was the campaign for the by-election in Liverpool's grimy Edge Hill district, where both Labor and Conservatives waited anxiously to see what effect, if any, Britain's crisis might have on Labor's vote. When the votes were counted last week, the score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: By-Election | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

Stones Hurled. Bogotá students made the controversy an occasion for a mass meeting. There were cries of "Down with Yankee Imperialism," "Down with Truman." Then Communists and other U.S.-baiters led the crowd downtown to the U.S. Embassy. A U.S. truck parked outside was overturned, the Embassy was stoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coffee Diplomacy | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

One of the prolific mothers, a Mrs. Fitzgerald, paid impartial homage to statesmanship by calling her eighth Eamon, her ninth Winston; Mrs. Noonan named her 13th and 14th Pius and Pascal. A connoisseur of hospitals, Mrs. Noonan scorned the nurses who had attended her on the occasion of Padraic. "Nosey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Whole Huroosh | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

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